Hey everyone,
So the PC I built back in 2008 finally died. About a year ago. I am sick to death of not having a real PC and having a giant full ATX brick in my house. Was working (with issues) when I put in storage. When I took it out of storage it refused to boot. Pretty sure the mother board is dead.
I am looking to keep the case (and maybe the PSU) as ATX cases with multiple slots for optical drives and 3.5 inch HDs seem hard to come by these days. Both are very important to me.
I am basically looking for the 2020 equivalent of my old PC. But not really sure what that would be.
Here are my old PC's specs
ASUS M3a78 AM2+ Socket MB
AMD A64x2 7750 @2.7GHZ
8GB RAM
GeForce 9800GT 512 GDDR3 PCI-E 2.0 (Though the card died quickly and I just used onboard video. Probably what I will do initially with the new build and add a car later.
Not really a PC gamer. Still on PS3 if that tells you how into video games I am. Just looking a basic, cheap build that isn't a complete lightweight. Again, the modern equivalent of my 2008 build. Would like to play Dead Rising 3 and 4 on it at some point. But that's about it.
Here is what matters to me in a new build
Six or more sata ports preferable
At least one IDE connector on the MB
Several USB 3.0 or 3.1 ports
Dual band wifi. Built in or a card. Need that 5GHz band
HDMI and DVI out. Preferably a VGA port also.
Any Motherboard and CPU suggestions would be greatly appreciated
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You should probably replace the PSU.
IDE connectors disappeared from motherboards some time ago. Your other requirements can be met.
Do you still prefer AMD? If so, you will need help from someone else. I haven't closely followed the news regarding AMD Ryzen CPUs and motherboards.Ignore list: hello_hello, tried, TechLord, Snoopy329 -
Sounds like an AMD APU would be perfect for you, I had the opportunity to use a modest 2200G not to long ago, and I have to say it was pretty impressive,
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Thanks for the replies. Sorry for the delay. I've been super busy. I would prefer AMD. But it's not like Intel would be a deal breaker for me. I used Intel before. This is actually my first AMD rig. I wouldn't touch Apple products with a ten foot pole, for example. But I would buy Intel if the value was right, even though I'm not crazy about the company.
I did look at the CPU that was mentioned, The problem I have is that I have no frame of reference. I don't know how that compares to top level Ryzen CPUs or what on even is. I bought a little mini Dell PC off ebay (dirt) a while ago. It's a core i5. Not super impressed by it.
Just kind of lost on what a mid tier rig is these days. Might want to do a little video capture too as my DVD recorder died and I have a bunch of VHS I am digitizing. Was thinking i5 or i7 with 16GB ram. But I don't know if that's overkill or not. Seems like it might be. -
You might want to consider replacing the CMOS battery on your old motherboard. Depending on how long your PC was in storage, the CMOS battery might have died.
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This is my parts list for a mid-range Intel desktop system based on a Comet Lake i5. Windows 10 is required for this build unless you can get this Windows 7 installer to work for you. I put everything in the list except the wireless cards into PCPartpicker's System Builder and they checked out OK. The memory was in Gigabyte's supported list for the motherboard
Intel Core i5-10400 Comet Lake 6-Core 2.9 GHz
GIGABYTE H470 HD3 ATX Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 CL16 Memory CMK16GX4M2A2666C16
Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
SeaSonic FOCUS 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit OEM
TP-Link WiFi 6 AX3000 PCIe WiFi Card or Gigabyte GC-CI22M_A CNVi WiFi Wireless-AC Upgrade kit (note that the TP-Link card requires Windows 10 64-bit)
You may be able to get a better system from AMD for the same money that meets your requirements list. I don't know enough to pick a CPU and motherboard for you.Last edited by usually_quiet; 9th Dec 2020 at 21:43. Reason: Corrected memory to match what I typed into PCPartpicker
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I was in your position last year.
Was using a 10 year old Win7 desktop.
It finally died.
I recycled my SSD, keyboard/mouse, and monitor
and trashed everything else.
New case.
New MB & CPU (Ryzen 5 2600)
New RAM 16GB
New Power supply
Win 10
GPU 1060GTX
I love having a new modern desktop.
Trash your old junk and move to the future. -
This is the site to pick a new build
https://pcpartpicker.com/ -
I remember you as lacywest. Welcome back!
It is going to be confusing trying to help two different people with a new build in a single thread. Maybe you could ask Baldrick to split this into two threads?Last edited by usually_quiet; 3rd Jan 2021 at 11:48.
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@lacywest - I have an ATX case suggestion, which is available with or without a window: https://www.newegg.com/black-be-quiet-pure-base-atx-mid-tower/p/2AM-0037-00023
The case has 3 HDD cages and 2 optical drive mounts but two more HDD cages can be added if needed: https://www.newegg.com/p/1W8-00VV-00004Ignore list: hello_hello, tried, TechLord, Snoopy329
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